This is an analysis of the poem The Mirage that begins with:
One day in the desert a bedouin
looked up and saw a mirage shimmering...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX XaXX XXb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100100100 1111001100 011101010 001001 00101010 01111001001 11010101 011001111 00101000101 11101001110001101001 100101101011010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Mirage;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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